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Here. And the white house ought to explain why that wasnt followed here, but there is a good way to answer these questions and we will do our best to answer these questions but we will not lose sight of the russia investigation and we are going to keep focus on that. Yes . Has there been any uptick in attacks on your or your staffers computers or i. T. Networks since this investigation has been going on . Im not aware of anything like that. Thank withdrew veyou very much. Thank you. Okay. Steve ...

What does the death of al-baghdadi represent for the future of isis? >> well, the death of al-baghdadi represents several things. the first thing it represents really is an operational victory. it puts points on the board for the good guys in this case. and i think what that tells us is that, you know, their so-called caliphate, its been shrinking and its been under tremendous pressure really for the next five years. but now that the leadership is beginning to shatter, you know, there was some f...

Important. meeting at the end of the day with many senators and the gop conference over lunch. she was a key player in the house negotiations, one of the individuals, im told, by several house aides got a lot of the on the fence no votes over the line to get the 217 votes they ended up getting to pass that bill. her involvement is an important point. there is a lot of things cms can do for individual states. there are a lot of things on the information side of things she can help explain. she is...

Assertion about wiretapping? >> i dont -- im not aware of anything directly. again, theres two sides of this. one is the information side. two is the policy and the activities and the legal piece of what happened. and i dont -- those are big buckets, if you will. >> so its possible? >> im not going to comment on it. >> at todays briefing sean spicer also announced that the top democrats and republicans on both now remember the house senate and intelligence committees have been invited to the whi...

Place, strong cybersecurity protocol, people checking to make sure there are not intrusions on these systemselec. on the information side, its difficult to stop this part of thing. on the hacking side its cybersecurity and also deterring the russians from doing this. taking actions in response to this. we havent had strong deterrence on cyber hacking or cyber str t cybersecuri cybersecurity. >> you talk about deterrence. russia is denying any involved whatsoever. you heard from vladimir putin sa...

Is not correct? >> im saying in order to comment on that story would be to validate certain things that im not at liberty to do. >> did the president direct none in this white house or his national security team to try to find information or intelligence to back up his assertion about wiretapping? >> i dont -- im not aware of anything directly. again, theres two sides of this. one is the information side. two is the policy and the activities and the legal piece of what happened. and i dont -- th...

The rebalance and hit it in the prior administration. ma many. if you have any hash tags, let me know. but i think right now were sfrnlt about egs ploegs rather than come patriots sfchlt. >> is there anyone in the white house or national security team to try to find information about wiretapping? >> im not aware of anything directly. i would have to look into that in terms of -- again, theres two sides of this. one is the information side and two is the policy and the activities and the legal pi...

Pivot in the previous administration. is there a tag line or vision for u.s./china relations that you will roll out during this visit? >> well see. if you have any hash tags, let me know. i think right now were not worried so much about slogans so much as progress. there are a lot of big things that we need to accomplish with china. we will work on them. kristen. >> the president direct anyone in this white house or in this national security team to try to find information or intelligence to bac...

Spice where our colleague was pressing him on whether the president directed people to go looking for evidence of wiretapping. take a listen. >> did the president direct anyone in this white house or the national security team to try to find information or intelligence to back up charges of wiretapping? >> i dont -- im not aware of anything directly. i have to look into. that again, there are two sides of this. one is the information side. two is the policy and the activities and the legal piece...

Is there a tag line or a vision for u.s./china relations that you will roll out during this visit? >> well see. im not -- if you have any hash tags, let me know. but i think right now were not worried so much about slogans as much as progress. theres a lot of big things that we need to accomplish with china and i think that we will work on that. kristen? >> thanks, sean. did the president direct anyone in this white house or on his national security team to try to find information or intelligenc...